Button



( o Model.)

GARY.

BUTTON.

Patented Feb. 2, 1897'.

A TTOHNEJ IJNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHELDON GARY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,186, dated February2, 1897.

Application filed July 6, 1896. $erial No. 598,085. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SHELDON CARY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of the same, in which Figure 1 is an upper faceview of one form of button embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same, the lower edge (here scalloped) not having yetbeen turned back. Fig. 3 is a bottom face view of the button of Fig. 2,showing also a piece of cloth to which it is secured. Fig. 4 is acentral vertical sectional view on line 4 4: of 1. Fig. 5 is a view ofthe button of Fig. 2 on line 5 5 of that figure. Fig. 6 is an under faceview of the button of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a modifiedform of button. Fig. 8 is an under face View of the same, and Fig. 9 isa central vertical sectional view of the said button of Fig. 7.

The invention relates to buttons intended to act as air-passages auditconsists in a button so constructed that it will permit the passage ofair from within the garment to which it is secured to the out-er side ofsaid garment and yet will not expose the undergarment to view throughthe air-passage.

Skirts, and bicycle-skirts in particular, are very likely to have airget under them and (because it cannot readily escape) raise the skirt inballoon fashion to an extent that is quiteundesirable, but if said skirtis provided with a series of my buttons the air would escape throughthem and the skirt would remain in the desired arrangement, and theundergarments and the limbs would be fully protected from view.

The button of Fig. 1 consists of a body part b, which is a hollow tubesplit into tangs or scalloped and slit at .the bottom and havingapertures a cut in its sides and a top 15 covering it. The materialforced out of the body to leave the aperture a I utilize to form lugs Z,by which the upper washer w, or the cloth without the washer, may beheld in place. In applying this button, having made the body and top,slit the bottom, and turned out the lugs, I preferably put a washer wover the body, then insert the body in a hole in the cloth 0, placeanother washer w on the body, and then turn the lower ends over on thewasher w, as seen in Fig. 5 or 6. This construction gives a very simpleand satisfactory button so far as ventilating is 0011- cerned, but thepart of the cloth holding the buttonhole is liable to ride up andpartially close the aperture a, and to prevent that I have devisedanother form, as shown in Figs. 7, 8, and 9. In this form I make thebody part substantially the same as in the other form, but a littlelonger. Over this I slide a flanged sleeve 8, the upper flange f bearingagainst the lugs Z and the lower flange f acting as a washer to hold thebutton in place in the goods, in conjunction with the washer to. The toprests upon the upper end of the body-tube Z1 and is provided with ribs0*, the lower ends of which are secured in place by curling the outeredge of flange f over upon them. This form leaves an opening for theescape of air between flange f and the top t and a better, becausesmoother, bearing for the cloth of the button-hole between flange f andf.

I do not intend to limit myself to a button made exactly as the onesshown, as many variations will readily present themselves to the mind ofa skilful mechanic acquainted with the art. The main thought is, asabove stated, a button which ventilates but does not expose, and the oneI have shown will do this and readily adapts itself to any form of topdesired.

IVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A button provided with means substantially as set forth for securingit to the goods on which it is to be used, an opening leading throughfrom a point on one side of the intended inner line of the goods to apoint on the opposite side of the intended outer line of the goods, atop located over and covering said opening and a passage bet-ween saidtop and the said intended outer line of the goods, all substantially asset forth.

2. A button composed of a hollow body portion, means for securing it toa fabric substantially as set forth, a shank extending above theintended line of the outer side of the fabric, a top covering the hollowof the body and apertures in said shank above the said intended line ofthe fabric and below said top, opening from the hollow body into theouter air, all substantially as set forth.

3. A button composed of a hollow tube, a flange washer near the bottom,a second washer above the first, lugs above the second washer, aperturesin the body above the second washer and a top covering the tube, allsubstantially as set forth.

4:. A button composed of a hollow body, means for securing it to thefabric, substan tially as set forth, a shank extending above theintended line of the outer side of the fabric, apertures in said shankabove said line, a flange or lip between the said line and the upperextremity of the apertures and a top covering the tube but not closingthe apertures, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presenee of two witnesses, this 3d day of July, 1890.

SHELDON CARY.

lVitncsses:

A. G. N. VERMILYA, C. L. WRIGHT.

